--- title: He made "one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick", f… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: He made "one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick", from flour, water, currants, plums and sugar; Kipling calls it "a Superior Comestible" ("comestible" = something to eat). Who acts: Parsee, Kipling. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parsee, Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:7 # text = He made "one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick", from flour, water, currants, plums and sugar; Kipling calls it "a Superior Comestible" ("comestible" = something to eat). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 10 across across ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 14 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 currants currant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 Kipling kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Superior Superior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 34 Comestible comestible NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 comestible comestible NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 = = SYM SYM _ 41 punct _ _ 41 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Parsee | one cake | | flour and water and currants and plums and sugar | | across *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent cake=Product from flour=Material | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | two feet | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling | cake | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/6/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)